Cover -- Contents -- PREFACE -- Introduction -- 1 The Geometrical Idea of Wordsworth's Poetry -- 2 The Topologic Self of The Prelude -- 3 The Geometrical Imperative of The Excursion -- 4 The Art of Conceptual Form -- APPENDIX: Form and Value in Music: Geometry and the Fugue -- NOTES -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W
Summary
In this book, Professor Johnson demonstrates how Wordsworth employed geometrical patterns in the metrical construction of his verse and how the character of those patterns can be related to the poet's major philosophical values
